The stock is owned by An­gel Trains, and has been made re­dun­dant by the in­tro­duc­tion of In­ter­city Ex­press Trains with GWR.

All long-dis­tance GWR trains should be op­er­ated by IETs by the end of March, with Porter­brookowned Mk 3s set to head off-lease shortly. Al­ready some of that rolling stock leas­ing com­pany’s ca­ter­ing ve­hi­cles are stored at the now­closed Lan­dore de­pot.